inverted
verb
- 1
To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
“to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.”
- 2
To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- 3
To undergo inversion, as sugar.
- 4
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- 5
To turn (the foot) inwards.
adjective
- 1
Having the order or direction changed; for example turned upside down, reversed or in any other way opposite or contrary.
- 2
Homosexual.
- 3
(of a chord) Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher.
- 4
(of sugar) Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar.
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